HC's Killer Reads makes 'open submission' buys

Killer Reads, HarperFiction’s new digital-first crime and thriller list, has made its first acquisitions through an open submission process it held last summer. Sarah Hodgson, deputy publishing director and Kate Stephenson, editor, have acquired three new titles from the hundreds of submissions, as well as a further three titles through literary agents.   Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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F+W Buys World Tea Media

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Medialets Launches Invite-Only Buying Platform for Mobile

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Orbit buys new Humanity's Fire novel

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Atlantic buys "haunting" Manhattan debut

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Reading Agency to cheer up readers

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HC's Haines to Penguin

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Police make arrest over Bertrams fraud

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Mullin returning champion in MPs' must-read list

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YouGov: books 'among most popular online buys'

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